How large a room will it clean? I have a 40 X 50 open space to clean. I found out after purchase the Roomba will not clean an area that big.
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I have had one for three months and it cleans the entire downstairs of our home (1000 ft^2). (That is a kitchen, family room, dinning room, living room and half bath) It cleans until the battery runs down goes back to the charging station recharges itself. It then returns to where it left off and finishes. It takes a couple of hours but it does it all and it does a very good job. The only thing I have to do is empty the dirt while it recharges and when its done. My wife and I were amazed the first few times it did the floors. The surfaces for all the floors are tile with throw rugs all over the place. It even does a good job on the rugs. The only warning I would give is that it does get stuck sometimes: on electrical cords that are loose on the floor, under dining tables when the chairs are in a certain position (but only once--it cleans under the tables really well) and on my daughter's music stand (again only once--it climbed one of the legs of the stand backing up and lifted the drive wheels off the floor) It has gotten clogged and stopped twice: Once when a thumb tack got stuck in the blade of its brush and jammed against the body of the vacuum and the first time we ran it so much hair wrapped around the brush that it got stuck but both my wife and daughter have long hair and it had been several days since the rooms had been swept. It is easy to clean the brush and empty out the collection bin. Depending on how much furniture you have, it may get everything on one battery charge it gets over three-quarter of the way done before it goes back for a charge at our house.
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I have a Roomba, too, so I use that to vacuum the floor & the iRobot to wash it.It's clean!!
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We had one in a 12 x 10 room, I believe that was a little big for it. But we had it near our dog's bed in the den and it kept all smells down from that. The other one we used in a 12 x 12 office at our shop and I feel it did an excellent job. So I would order what I could to plug in near trouble areas such as kitchen or bedroom or wherever you have odors that are ongoing or off and on. Change out the filters regularly and/or just wash them out. I ordered extra because we have a Labrador. So the dander and hair does get filtered and needs to be cleaned out. I was pleasantly surprised by how well they work. But they are not designed for that large an area using just one. I would have to look again but I believe the instructions says an area around 10 x 10 but would need to confirm that.
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Not well at all. A roomba will do it. The Roomba is a much better buy as it is a much more capable machine. But the Braava is a flop at picking things up. Not even for mopping. Better off putting a wet cloth on the front of a Roomba than getting a Braava.
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The storage compartment holds quite a lot. I turn my Roomba on and let it clean the whole house. It docks itself and a light will come on when the compartment is full and needs to be emptied. However, I usually empty mine after each cleaning. It's amazing how much it picks up, and emptying the compartment of debris is a breeze. VERY simple and easy. Pull out the tray from the front, empty it and slide it back in until it snaps. When in place, it looks like part of the machine. I love mine...... !!! So glad I got it. Saves me a lot of work.
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Cleaning cycle? Roomba will run/vacuum for several hours between charges. To manually clean the device takes just a minute or two if you are just cleaning the brushes and emptying the dust bin. If/when the thing starts giving you frequent errors, a full cleaning, where you take the thing apart, is likely needed, that takes about 30-60 minutes.
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I think it depends on the thickness of the cord, most of the time my Roomba will try and run over a cord and get stuck on it because it couldn't get past it but I have seen it try to suck up smaller cords. I just make sure they're pulled up or blocked so that I don't have to worry about it.
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The Roomba is amazing - I would marry it if it was feasible! Seriously it is great but we have 99% wooden and tiled floors and lots of animals so it handles the load really well. But we do have some black rubber backed low profile mats and it can have problems with them.
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It's a great unit for a bedroom, probably would work fine for 250 sq. ft. I bought it for my daughter who has asthma and it made an amazing difference for her. You can put it on automatic and it only works when it needs to. I think it's a great little unit. Only for dust it work very well, but if you need it to, it does so much more.
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Hi there, it is perfect for tile floor. I don't have any rugs in my home, just the ones in the bathrooms which I prefer to take out when Roomba goes to work. It does make a noise but it's not loud enough to be annoying. And if you schedule it to clean when you're not home you don't even have to hear it. Yes, it does return to the docking station automatically when it finishes the job. It's actually nice to schedule it to clean when you're not home, and then come home after work and find Roomba in its docking station and your house perfectly clean :) However you need to try a few laps under your supervision first, before leaving Roomba alone, to identify where are the places it could get stuck into (like a bunch of wires lying on the floor or some higher thresholds) and then put the perfect program in place using the virtual walls. It comes with 2 virtual walls that you can use to block some areas in the house if you like. One other thing it can't do when you're not home is clean in the corners behind an open door, because if it touches the door and the door closes, then Roomba is stuck in that room. So I leave all the doors open with door stoppers and then just clean behind the doors with a cloth if needed. All in all it is of great help, I love it because I have 4 dogs and I need to vacuum every other day. Hope this helps.
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Maybe a year? Always had issues with mine and I've had two roombas. I wish I would have bought a different brand. Make sure you clean it thoroughly after each use.
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I have a Dyson and will admit that it cleans well. It is noisy and I had to send it back for problems with extreme noise, it took two weeks before it came back. A year later the same problem came back. I am looking to buy the Hoover.
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Mine is a large room (combined kitchen, living area). This is a good air cleaner for me.
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That will vary depending on how dirty the area to be cleaned is. Roomba has an automatic shut down function when the collection bin is full. We have 2 cats and a long haired dog and use Roomba downstairs, ~1000 sq ft, and it hasn't filled while running yet.
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This roomba is used on the wood floor in my house. The wood is 4 inch oak with some rugs. The vacuum has done a good job so far. I usually run it twice a day. I have had the vacuum less than a month and have no complaints about the performance. The only grip is that the vacuum dirt collection bin is no big enough. The remote also works well.
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Yes, but recharging needed which is nothing unusual. With the Roomba 560, 2,000 sq ft vacuumed, swept and mopped this weekend. Best money I've spent!
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We have tried both the Roomba and Neato, and much prefer the latter...bought a 2nd Neato, and retired the Roomba. It works more efficiently, better shaped for corners, more user friendly with programming/prompts. At least this is what my cleaning expert (wife) tells me.